Inhalable Insulin Flops ... Twice
From: Medical Design Technology - 02/04/2016

You would think that inhalable insulin should be a million-dollar idea,
right? No longer would diabetics have to worry about regular injections or an
insulin pump to keep track of. Administering the medicine would be simple and
virtually painless - a diabetic’s dream.

But both major efforts to successfully get an inhalable insulin device into
the market in the last decade have failed. Miserably. And these aren’t small
projects coming from ambitious startup companies: the first major attempt was
made by Pfizer in 2006, and the second by Sanofi in early 2015.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/blog/2016/02/medtech-memoirs-inhalable-insulin-flopstwice